DOCSLIB.ORG

The Anglican Years

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Anglican Years Chapter 5 The Anglican Years 1885-1928Y After leaving the Presbyterian Theological Hall (Chapter 3), Cheok Hong Cheong worked in the family business in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. In 1879 he was a co-author of The Chinese Question (Chapter 4), the project that started his long career as a Chinese community spokesman. In 1882 he was invited to address the Annual Meeting of the Anglican Church Missionary Society of Victoria (CMSV).1 His speech showed his Chinese cultural pride and reflected something of the framework of ideas and values included in The Chinese Question. He spoke of ‘the existence of China as a nation for nearly four thousand years’ and attributed this to ‘filial piety’ and ‘bonds of mutual subordination and respect’. He again addressed the CMSV Annual Meeting on 3rd December 1884.2 This time The Church of England Messenger praised the ‘unexpected’ quality of his presentation: The speech of the evening, partly from its intrinsic merits, but chiefly from the fact that, good as it was in itself, it seemed so much better, because so unexpected, in the mouth of a true Chinaman, Mr. Chok [sic] Hong Cheong, a Chinese trader in Fitzroy, but a thorough master of English, and matriculated student at the University of Melbourne. In praising Cheong’s ‘gentle, persuasive and amiable character’, the paper reported his ‘pardonable confidence in the invincibility of the Chinese nation, despite . all assaults’ and his equal confidence that only Christianity could provide the ‘grand motive-power’ China needed to be restored to the ranks of the world’s great powers.3 The Church Missionary Society of Victoria (CMSV) began in January 1851 as the Melbourne Diocesan Board of Missions (DBM) formed to undertake the evangelisation of 1 The Missionary, At Home and Abroad, November-December 1882, p 184. 2 The CMSV had no connection with the CMS of England (CMSE), although most of its supporters in Victoria saw the CMSV as carrying on the traditions of the British society. When the CMSE established itself in Australia in 1892, it was named the Church Missionary Association and it was not until the early 20th century that the name Church Missionary Society of Australia was adopted. By then the term Church Missionary Society of Victoria, Re-formed had no legal status and had fallen into disuse. 3 The Church of England Messenger, January 1885. 103 non-Europeans in Victoria and the South Pacific.4 It was the Victorian element of an Australian Board of Missions created at a conference of the five Australian Anglican Bishops and the Bishop of New Zealand, held in Sydney in 1850.5 In 1857 the Victorian DBM was reconstituted as the Church Missionary Society of the Diocese of Melbourne.6 In September 1859 it was replaced by a ‘voluntary’ or non-official CMSV formed to start an Anglican Chinese Mission after the 1858 collapse of the Victoria Chinese Mission (VCM).7 The CMSV adopted the original 1851 objects of the DBM that were retained unaltered in 1857: (i) To establish and maintain missions, and generally to assist in any efforts for the conversion and civilisation of the aboriginal inhabitants of this diocese. (ii) To co-operate, as far as possible, with the Provincial Board of Missions at Sydney in the conversion and civilisation of the heathen races in all the islands of the Western Pacific. (iii) To receive and forward any subscriptions to particular missionary societies, or special missionary objects, approved by the committee. The first systematic attempt (see Chapter 1) to evangelise the Chinese in Victoria took place between 1855 and 1858 at the Mount Alexander diggings (Castlemaine). A financial recession forced closure of the interdenominational Victoria Chinese Mission (VCM) at the end of 1857. There were other ecumenical missions at Ballarat and Smythesdale, near Ballarat, but by the end of 1859 both had closed. After the collapse of the VCM denominational missions were established with Methodists taking Castlemaine and the Presbyterians absorbing the Ballarat mission. The first Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, the Right Reverend Charles Perry, as a private individual, had been, with the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, a major financial supporter of the VCM, although his first choice was for an Anglican mission.8 Perry’s views were stated in a letter to Bishop George Smith (Anglican Bishop of Hong Kong) by the Dean and Vicar General of the Diocese of Melbourne, the Very Rev. H B Macartney, who wrote: 4 The Church of England Record, October 1859:110. See also The Church of England Messenger for the Diocese of Melbourne, Vol II No 2:53. For convenience referred to throughout as the Church of England Messenger. 5 The Dioceses of Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Adelaide and Newcastle, with New Zealand. The Church of England Record, Vol 1, No III, September 1855, pp 1-2. 6 Later the Church Missionary Society of Victoria (CMSV) after the creation of the Diocese of Ballarat in 1872. As a matter of convenience, the abbreviation CMSV is used throughout. 7 The Church of England Record, November 1859. 8 Very Rev. H B Macartney to the Lord Bishop of Victoria, 14 July 1855, Perry Letterbooks. Anglican Diocesan Archives, Melbourne. 104 The Bishop of Melbourne hoped before he left Victoria that your Lordship might have been able to send him a Chinese Catechist who might labor among his countrymen here. Two young men have lately arrived connected with the London Missionary Society, and we bid them welcome, but of course we would be much better pleased if we could send out churchmen.9 In 1856 the Bishop of Hong Kong sent Lo Sam-yuen, his most trusted Chinese catechist, to Victoria. When Perry ‘loaned’ Lo to the Victoria Chinese Mission he wrote to the ‘Rev’ William Young, the Superintending Missionary of the VCM, insisting that Lo Sam-yuen act in accordance with Anglican principles:10 Bishopscourt, June 25 1856 Rev. Mr. Young, Missionary to the Chinese Reverend and Dear Sir The bearer of this note is Lo Sam-Yuen the Chinese teacher sent to me by the Bishop of Victoria with the purpose of employing him on the Gold-Fields. I propose to place him at the disposal of the Committee of the Chinese Mission, and in the meanwhile I would wish you to have the goodness to take charge of him and employ him either at Castlemaine or Sandhurst (Bendigo) at your discretion. You will arrange with him respecting his stipend for which I will hold myself responsible. I would wish him, in any public service which he may undertake, to use a portion of our liturgy, to which he is accustomed, and of which he has brought a supply in the Chinese language.11 I 9 Very Rev. H B Macartney to the Lord Bishop of Victoria, 14 July 1855, Perry Letterbooks. 10 Despite Perry’s courteous use of the honorific ‘Reverend’ Young was not an ordained minister and had no theological education. The use of the honorific by lay ministers was accepted practice in 19th century Victoria. Cheok Hong Cheong also used the term. Young’s status as a locally recruited missionary of the London Missionary Society was that of a non-ordained lay evangelist or Bible teacher. His work as an LMS missionary was significantly affected by the continuing ill-health of his wife, Olive Amelia Vardon, the daughter of a British merchant in Batavia, whom he married in 1842. Mrs Young was born in Bow, London, in 1816. Continuously subject to ill-health during their missionary service at Amoy (Xiamen) Mrs Young suffered a serious illness during childbirth in Castlemaine in 1856, and died in 1857 at just forty years old, leaving Young with a young daughter, Catherine Stewart. There is only one reference to Catherine Stewart Young apart from a note of Young’s death in Bow, perhaps with his daughter at his side. In December 1864, aged about seven or eight years old, he took her with him on a visit to Creswick. At some stage during his residence in Victoria he apparently sent Catherine to live with his wife’s parents in London and although he resided in Jersey (Channel Islands) he was apparently visiting Catherine when he died at Bow. Young was of mixed racial origin (mother was Malay) and this might have added to his problems. A letter from the Secretary of the Victoria Chinese Mission, the Rev. Richard Fletcher, stating that Young was not employable as a minister to Europeans while a later Presbyterian minister said, when the Presbyterians were seeking to replace Young, that the mission needed a European superintendent. Fletcher to Tidman, 26 October 1855, London Missionary Society, Australian Correspondence, MSS. The Christian Review, December 1866, p 7. 11 The importance of the two points should not be missed. In paying Lo’s salary, and insisting on his use of Anglican forms in worship services, Perry was making it clear that he saw Lo as primarily an Anglican 105 have at my disposal a large quantity of Chinese testaments, prayer-books and tracts. Would you wish me to send any up to you? If so please write to me and tell me how they should be sent and to what address. PS, Lo Sam-Yuen cannot speak English.12 With two other Chinese catechists already at work in Castlemaine (Chu A Luk and Leong A Toe), Lo Sam-yuen was moved to Ballarat in 1857 where he made striking progress, holding three services every Sunday averaging about 150 worshippers. Lo raised £160 from the Chinese to build a Chinese Christian chapel at Red Hill. The opening on 24 January 1858 was a gala event.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • ESSEX RECORD OFFICE Reels M838-40
    AUSTRALIAN JOINT COPYING PROJECT ESSEX RECORD OFFICE Reels M838-40 Essex Record Office County Hall Chelmsford CM1 1LX National Library of Australia State Library of New South Wales Filmed: 1972 CONTENTS Page 3 Quarter Sessions records, 1782-1853 5 Papers of John Vaughan, 1885-97 5 Papers of the Perry Family, 1841-62 6 Letter of J.S.T. Dowbiggin, 1844 6 Letter of Edward Hawkins, 1830 6 Papers of the Petre Family, 1839-60 7 Papers of James Brogden, 1810-16 7 Papers of the Tabor Family, 1876 7 Papers of Rose Robertson, 1866-1903 8 Papers of Alexander Wallace, 1897-99 9 Papers of George Warburton, 1898 9 Papers of the Bullock Family, 1850 9 Papers of Col. Benjamin Branfill, 1882-98 10 Thesis of M.H. Dunwell, 1966 2 ESSEX RECORD OFFICE Reel M838 QUARTER SESSIONS RECORDS Q/AMz Minor functions 5 Drafts of orders for transportation, May 1845 – June 1853 The orders, signed by the Clerk of the Peace, give the name, age, crime and sentence of each convict. Q/CR Clerk of the Peace 9/5 Returns of transportation orders, 1844-53. The returns were prepared by the Clerk of the Peace for the Home Office. They give the names of convicts sentenced to transportation at the General Quarter Sessions at Chelmsford, together with their ages, crimes, and the length of the sentence. 9/7 Returns of transportation orders for each Sessions, 1835-39 Drafts of returns showing amounts paid by County of Essex for conveyance of prisoners under sentence of transportation to depots, 1835 -1837.
    [Show full text]
  • Anglicans in China
    ANGLICANS IN CHINA A History of the Zhonghua Shenggong Hui (Chung Hua Sheng Kung Huei) by G.F.S. Gray with editorial revision by Martha Lund Smalley The Episcopal China Mission History Project 1996 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements . ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ............ .......................... ............ 1 Editor's foreword ..... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ............ .......................... ............ 2 List of illustrations ... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ............ .......................... ............ 3 Preface by G.F.S. Gray. ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ............ .......................... ............ 4 Overview and chronology of the period 1835-1910 ... ..... ............ .......................... ............ 5 Overview of the period 1911-1927 .... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ............ .......................... ............ 20 Diocesan histories 1911-1927 Hong Kong and South China ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ............ .......................... ............ 25 Fujian (Fukien) .. ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ............ .......................... ............ 26 Zhejiang (Chekiang) ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ...... ..... ............ .......................... ............ 27 Guangxi-Hunan (Kwangsi-Hunan) .... ...... ..... ...... ..... ............ .......................... ............ ............ 28 Shanghai .... ...... ....
    [Show full text]
  • Heritage Impact Assessment of St. Paul's Co-Educational College
    Heritage Impact Assessment Report Redevelopment of St. Paul’s Co-educational College (Phase 2), 33 MacDonnell Road, Hong Kong Heritage Impact Assessment Report Redevelopment of St. Paul’s Co-educational College (Phase 2) 33 MacDonnell Road, Hong Kong Prepared for St. Paul’s Co-educational College By China Point Consultants Limited In association with February 2011 China Point Consultants Limited SUBMISSION VERSION 2_2011 February 2011 1 Heritage Impact Assessment Report Redevelopment of St. Paul’s Co-educational College (Phase 2), 33 MacDonnell Road, Hong Kong CAVEAT The Heritage Impact Assessment was carried out within the context of the preliminary renovation design proposal for Redevelopment of St. Paul’s Co-educational College, 33 MacDonnell Road, Hong Kong. Signed by HIA Consultant: _________________________________________ TSE, Ching-kan Curry Authorized Signature February 2011 China Point Consultants Limited SUBMISSION VERSION 2_2011 February 2011 2 Heritage Impact Assessment Report Redevelopment of St. Paul’s Co-educational College (Phase 2), 33 MacDonnell Road, Hong Kong Table of Contents page 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5 2 INTRODUCTION 6 2.1 The Brief 2.2 Objectives and Structure of Report 2.3 Methodology 2.4 Authorship and Ownership 2.5 Definitions 2.6 Limitations 2.7 Acknowledgements 3 UNDERSTANDING THE PLACE 11 3.1 Introduction 3.2 A Brief History of The College a) Founding Campuses (1915-1927) b) Establishment of the Main Building (1927-1938) c) Japanese Invasion & Occupation (1939-1945) d) First Co-educational College in Hong Kong (1945) e) Provisional campus for Chung Chi College (1951- 1953) f) Retirement of Dr. Catherine Woo (1952) 3.3 Development of Physical Fabric a) Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • Chairman's Report 20 June 1967
    Chairman's Report 20 June 1967 My report covers the Society's They were privileged to visit Mr and Patron activities from June last year until Mrs Rufino Tamayo and to see today. Our financial year as you know Tamayo's most recent painting. In Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother always ends on December 31st and our Cuernavaca they were entertained and Honorary Treasurer will be dealing with met by Mathias Goeritz, the architect/ Executive Committee our financial affairs in his report. During sculptor, and also by Kitzia Hofmann Whitney Straight CBE MC DFC Chairman the period January to December 1966 Ysenbourg, the stained glass artist and Anthony Lousada Vice-Chairman our two buyers, Anthony Lousada and her sculptor husband. Work by these James Melvin Honorary Treasurer Loraine Conran, spent £5,101. 10. 0 artists was amongst commissioned The Hon John Sainsbury Honorary Secretary between them on their choice of 21 works on public buildings seen by G. L. Conran paintings and 10 pieces of sculpture. members during the trip. Derek Hill This year our two buyers are Bryan A great deal of time was naturally spent Bryan Robertson, OBE Robertson and Derek Hill who, although in the magnificent new Anthropological The Hon Michael Astor The Lord Croft due by rotation to retire at this meeting, Museum in Mexico City. This acted as a Alan Bowness are naturally invited to complete their perfect introduction to the many fine Dr Kenneth Marsh task. archeological sites the party was to see Norman Reid At the last Annual Meeting we were on their subsequent extensive tour Justin Knowles very sorry to have to say farewell to through Mexico.
    [Show full text]
  • BISHOP Roots, Hankow
    THE ANGLICAN BISHOPS I N CHINA, I907. BISHOP TURNE R, Korea. BIS H O P RooTs, Hankow. BIS HO P PRIC E , Fuhkien. BIS HO P GRAVES , Shanghai. BISHO P CASSELS , W estern China. BISHOP Mou LE , late of Mid-China. Bis HO P ScoTT1 North China. BISHOP lLIFF, Shantung. C!Cbina BY THE REv. FRANK L. NORRIS, M.A. S.P. G. Missionary in North China and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of North China WITH ILLUSTRATIONS' A. R. MOWBRAY & CO. LTD. LONDON : 34 Great Castle Street, Oxford Circus, W. OxFORD: ro6 S, Aldate's Street NEw YORK: THOMAS WHITTAKER, 2 and 3 Bible House First printed, Igo8 GENERAL PREFACE T was said, I believe by the late Bishop I Lightfoot, that the study of history was the best cordial for a drooping courage. I can imagine no study more bracing and exhilarating than that of the modern expansion of the Church of England beyond the seas during the past half century, and especially since the institution of the Day of Intercession for Foreign Missions. It is only when these matters are studied historically that this expansion comes out in its true proportions, and invites comparison with the progress of the Church in any similar period of the world's history since our LORD'S Ascension into heaven. But for this purpose there must be the accurate marshalling of facts, the consideration of the special circumstances of each country, race and Mission, the facing of problems, the biographies of great careers, even the bold forecast of conquests yet to come.
    [Show full text]
  • Victorian Heritage Database Place Details - 23/9/2021 ST JAMES OLD CATHEDRAL
    Victorian Heritage Database place details - 23/9/2021 ST JAMES OLD CATHEDRAL Location: 419-437 KING STREET and 2-24 BATMAN STREET WEST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number: H0011 Listing Authority: VHR Extent of Registration: NOTICE OF REGISTRATION As Executive Director for the purpose of the Heritage Act, I give notice under section 46 that the Victorian Heritage Register is amended in that the Heritage Register Number 11 in the category described as a Heritage place, Heritage object is now described as: St James Old Cathedral, 419-435 King Street, West Melbourne, City of Melbourne. EXTENT: 1. All the buildings marked (B-1) and the fence marked B-2 on Diagram 602508A held by the Executive Director. 2. All the land marked L-1 on Diagram 602508A held by the Executive Director, being part of the land described in Certificate of Title Volume 10320 Folio 585. 3. All the objects held within the church as listed below: All the cedar box pews, Two mahogany pulpits, The baptismal font, The bishop's throne, The World War 1 and World War 2 honour boards. 1 Dated 13 August 1998. RAY TONKIN Executive Director [Victoria Government Gazette G 33 20 August 1998 p.2253] Statement of Significance: St James Old Cathedral was constructed on a Crown grant site of 5 acres of land bounded by Collins, William and Bourke Streets with the foundation stone being laid on 9 November 1839 by Charles Joseph La Trobe, Superintendent of the District of Port Phillip. A simple timber pioneer church which preceded it was built with funds largely subscribed by Presbyterians and other denominations who made up the small community.
    [Show full text]
  • CYCLOPEDIA of BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL and ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE J - Lysius, Johann Heinrich by James Strong & John Mcclintock
    THE AGES DIGITAL LIBRARY REFERENCE CYCLOPEDIA of BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL and ECCLESIASTICAL LITERATURE J - Lysius, Johann Heinrich by James Strong & John McClintock To the Students of the Words, Works and Ways of God: Welcome to the AGES Digital Library. We trust your experience with this and other volumes in the Library fulfills our motto and vision which is our commitment to you: MAKING THE WORDS OF THE WISE AVAILABLE TO ALL — INEXPENSIVELY. AGES Software Rio, WI USA Version 1.0 © 2000 2 Jaabez, Isaac a Jewish rabbi of Constantinople, who died at the beginning of the 17th century, is the author of dsj trwt, a commentary on the Hagiographa, consisting of tell different parts: 1, µylwlh çdq, on the Song of Songs; 2, çdq jmx, on Ruth: 3, ymt tqdx, on Lamentations; 4, [dm yr[ç, on Coheleth; 5, µylç trf[, on Esther; 6, twlht, on the Psalms; 7, ydwml, on Proverbs; 8, ydç tary, on Job; 9, µyrçy tkrb, on Daniel, 10, [yçwm µyswj, on Ezra and Nehemiah, reprinted in Moses Frankfurter's Rabbinic Bible (Amsterdam, 1724-27). See De' Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), page 133; Fulrst, Bibl. Jud. 2:2. Jaabez, Joseph ben-Abraham a Jewish rabbi of the 16th century, belonged to those exiles who left Spain in 1492. Jaabez settled at Adrianople, where he became rabbi preacher. He wrote twdjah rmam, or system of Jewish dogmatics (Ferrara, 1554): — dyæsy hnwmah, or Dogmatics of Judaism, printed with the "system:" — µyyjh rya, or faith triumphant over philosophy (ibid. eod.; Amsterdam, 1781; Praemvsl, 1873): ylht l[ çwrp, a commentary on the Psalms (Salonika, 1571).
    [Show full text]
  • Bishop Gerard Lander
    Bishop Gerard Lander This morning we are pleased to the College today Mr. Gerard Lander the grandson on Bishop Lander. Bishop of Lander was the Bishop of Victoria in the early twentieth century and also the 6th Warden and Principal of St. Paul’s College. His name is on the honour board at the back of the Hall and his photograph on the wall to my right. This is Mr. Lander’s first visit to SPC and I thought I would use this occasion to tell you a little about the life and work of his grandfather. Bishop Lander arrived in Hong Kong from England in November 1907 and enthroned as the Bishop of Victoria. He was 47 years of age. Lander went to Trinity College at the University of Cambridge from where he was awarded a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree and a doctorate. In the years before coming to Hong Kong, the Rev Lander served as a parish priest in the north west of England and had a close association with Liverpool Cathedral. The Rev Lander had been considered as the new Bishop of Fujian (Fukien) but the Archbishop of Canterbury felt that the climate in Hong Kong would be a more suitable for him and his young family. The circumstances that led to Bishop Lander being appointed the new Bishop of Victoria were very sad. In September the previous year Hong Kong experienced a severe typhoon. Shortly before the storm arrived, Bishop Joseph Hoare, the 5th principal of our college, left on a preaching of villages in the area around Castle Peak.
    [Show full text]
  • Bishopscourt
    BISHOPSCOURT Bishopscourt, East Melbourne, has been the residence of all Melbourne's Anglican Bishops and Archbishops since 1853. Lambeth Palace, London, on the other hand, has only been axesidence of under half of the Archbishops of Canterbury i.e. since the twelfth century . Charles Perry, Melbourne's first Bishop, landed with Mrs Perry on 23 January 1848 and for the first six weeks after their arrival they resided at the Southern Cross Hotel at 165 Bourke Street West At the and of this period and until .a suitable residence -could be provided, the Perry's arranged to rent a cottage, "Upper Jolimont" built on Superintendent La Trobe's property, "Jolimont Though this accommodation was somewhat limited, ,the house had the advantage of proximity to the Superintendent' s "cultured and amiable family." Here the Perry's settled for five years, alternating their time in Melbourne with trips to outlying stations and settlements. Meanwhile, in 1848, in accordance with an arrangement made by the Secretary for the Colonies in London, the Government in Sydney appropriated £2,000 towards the erection of a bishop's residence and also reserved a site of two acres of land in a very convenient situation within the town boundaries. Perry could have had five acres beyond the boundaries but he wisely determined, in his own interest and that of his successors, that an easy walk from all parts of Melbourne was an essential condition for a bishop's home. Perry wrote thus in reference to the proposed residence: .It must be recollected also that the afire of a bishop requires him to exercise hospitality; and besides the direct ministry of the Word and example of a holy life, there is scarcely any means more conducive than this to the spiritual well being of the people ever whom he is placed.
    [Show full text]
  • Ts'ai Yung-Ch'un's Life and Work Fully Chinese and Fully Christian
    Ts'ai Yung-ch'un's Life and Work Fully Chinese and Fully Christian Yale Divinity School Library Occasional Publication No. 14 .------....: .... ..;__. YALE DNINITY SCHOOL LIBRARY OccasionalPublication No. 14 Ts' AI YUNG-CH'UN'S LIFE AND WORK FULLY CHINESE AND FULLY CHRISTIAN by Hugh Barbour Yale Divinity School Library New Haven, Connecticut 2000 Copyright, 2000 Hugh Barbour In gratitudefor the integritywhich hisfamily and friends learnedfrom the saintly Ts'ai Yung-ch'un. Preface The Occasional Publications of the Yale Divinity School Library are sponsored by the George Edward and Olivia Hotchkiss Day Associates. Please see the Library's web site for more information about its collections and programs: http://www.library.yale.edu/div. Hugh Barbour was born in Peking, China in 1921, the son of George and Dorothy Barbour, faculty members at Yenching University. Barbour received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1952 and was professor of Church History at Earlham College for many years. He was inspired to write this essay by the Ts'ai family's personal friendship with himself and his parents. He has been dependent on help from Ts'ai's family, especially for translations ofTs'ai's guidebook and selections in Chinese from the New Testament. Dr. Franklin Woo, whose wife is Ts'ai Hsiu-ying's niece, was the first and so far only scholar to review Ts'ai Yung-Ch'un's Columbia University theses on Confucian funeral rituals and the Neoconfucian philosopher Cheng Yi. Other basic sources have included Ts'ai Hsiu-Ying's biography of her husband, My Companion, Ts' ai Yung-ch 'un (privately printed, 1995) and George B.
    [Show full text]
  • Goodman's Life of Bishop Perry.1
    The Olw,roh and the Genercil Eieotion. 545 High Church 1Jarty. Of Lol'C1 Salisbury's appointments during the last twelve months, it may be admitted that they have 9one something in recognition of the fact that there are other parties. in the Church besides the High Church party, but a good many of t,he same type will have to be made before the balance can be deemed to be adequately redressed, ancl " High," "Low" and "Broad" represent.eel amongst the hig·her clergy in anything appl'Oachin_g the proportions in which they are tepresentec1 amongst the inferior clergy, and still more amongst ·the laity. The foregoing observations, though per1mps they may be regaTCled as somewhat discursive, as in point of fact they necessarily are, do not by any means exhaust all that might be said upon the question; but they will serve, I think, to bring into tolerable relief what, after all, was the main pur­ pose with which I sat down to write thii:; article, namely, to :submit to the consideration of the readers of THE Ga:UROHMA.N ·that, one and all, they have duties to discharge and responsi­ :bilities to bear in connection with a General Election which they cannot or ought not to ignore, much less shirk. In other words, that so long as the precept of Roly Scripture "that righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people," is operative, so long is it the duty of Christian electors to assist, to the utmost of their power, in securing the return to the House of Commons of men who will uphold the rights a,nd liberties and purity and freedom of the Church and people of England.
    [Show full text]
  • 1910. Charles Perry Lecture. 2010. Ridley
    EVANGELICALISM IN VICTORIA – 1910. Charles Perry Lecture. 2010. Ridley Melbourne. 19th July, 2010. ****** The purpose of this lecture is to look at the overall evangelical situation in Victoria in 1910, when Ridley Melbourne was founded. Ridley College has from its beginning had an avowedly evangelical charter. Although students would be taught Christian theology, and prepared for Christian service, without requiring them to be evangelicals, yet the purpose of the College was openly declared to be to serve the Church of Christ from within what we might call the Evangelical Party of the Church of England. Firstly, we need to look at the history of the Evangelical Party, which had such a formative influence on what happened here. The Early History of the Evangelical Party in the Church of England. G. R. Balleine has given us an excellent history of the Evangelical Party in the Church of England,1 starting with the Oxford Methodists, led by the Rev. John Wesley, but including a very small number of other evangelical clergy in the Eighteenth Century, such as John Newton, John Berridge and William Grimshaw, who mainly served in country parishes. This was the first generation of people in the Evangelical Party of the Church of England. There was also an American wing to this great movement, with the Rev. George Whitefield being involved in both British and American aspects. There were also important Scottish and Welsh components of the Movement which had far-reaching effects. It also included the rise of Methodism in Britain and America. Whitefield was involved in all of these, as well.
    [Show full text]